Executive Profile

Allen Grossman

Background

Mr. Allen Grossman served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Outward Bound U.S.A. for six years before stepping down in 1997 to work on the challenges of creating high performing nonprofit organizations. His current research focuses on leadership and management in public education; the challenges of measuring nonprofit organizational performance; and the issues of managing multi-site nonprofit organizations. In partnership with four foundations, Mr. Grossman ... founded the Going to Scale Project in 1994. He is a Member of Advisory Council at Acumen Fund. Mr. Grossman also serves as a Member of Advisory Board at New Sector Alliance. He is the Faculty Chair for a new executive education program, the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP). Mr. Grossman Co-Chairs the executive education program, Performance Measurement and Management of Nonprofit Organizations (PMNO). He currently teaches the new first year course, Leadership and Corporate Accountability and co-teaches the second year course, Effective Leadership of a Social Enterprise. Mr. Grossman has taught the first year course- The Entrepreneurial Manager and co-taught the second year course- Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector. He also teaches in the Harvard Business School executive education programs- Strategic Perspectives for Nonprofit Managers (SPNM) and Governing for Nonprofit Excellence (GNE) and others. Mr. Grossman was appointed a Harvard Business School Professor of Management Practice in July 2000. He joined the Business School faculty in July 1998, with a concurrent appointment as a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He received a B.S. in Corporate Finance from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.

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